Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
MATSUO BASHOWhen composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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